Gary Null
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 Pineapples, blueberries, raisins, cloves, and ginger are also good sources.
Without manganese, a slow deterioration of muscle health—myasthenia gravis—can develop. Protein production and carbohydrate/fat metabolism would be inhibited. Manganese deficiencies can be related to blood-sugar disorders and sexual dysfunction. There is no official recommended daily requirement for manganese, but trace mineral experts suggest up to 7 mg daily. In the case of manganese, it is worthwhile to supplement your diet. |
Doreen Virtue, Ph.D.
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 Puree fruit with an ice cube and some ginger ale, and you've got a sorbet. Microwave sliced apples for two minutes at high temperature, top with cinnamon, and you've got a quick, low-calorie apple pie-type treat.
ž Try frozen fruit. When fresh fruit becomes scarce during the winter, a good alternative awaits you in the freezer aisle. Have you ever tried fruits that are frozen in one-pound plastic bags?
They cost a little more than fresh fruit, and they are a little mushy when thawed, but they are extremely sweet and flavorful, even though they are unsweetened. |
Marcia Zimmerman, C.N.
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 Add a little ground ginger, nutmeg, or cinnamon to suit your taste. Makes I cup of dressing
Comments: This dressing makes a good substitute for mayonnaise dressings. It goes well on fruit salads or carrot and apple (or pineapple) salad. You can even use it on pancakes, hot cereal, or fruit for breakfast The protein in the yogurt helps balance the sugar that's in the chutney. Just don't overdo it and start putting it on foods several times a day or even daily.
There are recipes for some other meals that fit into the MSV schematic. |
H.J. Roberts, M.D.
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 Although known to be an aspartame reactor, she did not realize that the ginger ale being ingested had aspartame. The lip and tongue problem subsided within one week after avoiding this beverage.
Dramatic throat reactions occurred in both a mother and daughter. The former wrote:
"I was drinking aspartame hot chocolate two or three times a day. One evening while taking a walk, I was unable to swallow. It was as if my throat was paralyzed. I didn't mention it to my daughter because I didn't want to frighten her. |
James A. Duke, Ph.D.
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 Growing up, I always envied the neighbor kids whose mothers gave them ginger ale for their tummy aches. My mom was more likely to give me castor oil or Fletcher's Castoria.
In fact, many herbs are natural stomach soothers: anise, cardamom, chamomile, cilantro, cinnamon, coriander, lavender, lemon balm, licorice, and spearmint. All of these grow in my Garden of Youth. Cinnamon is my wife Peggy's favorite indigestion remedy. Our plant is potted. It stays outdoors in the summertime, but I have to bring it inside before first frost, along with our car-
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| WHAT YOU NEED
Any combination of the following herbs (use fresh or powdered leaf or bruised seed): anise, cardamom, chamomile, cilantro, cinnamon, coriander, ginger, lavender, lemon balm, licorice, peppermint, red pepper, and spearmint
1 cup water
WHAT TO DO
Combine the herbs of your choice to taste. Steep 1 to 2 teaspoons of the plant material in the freshly boiled water for 10 minutes. Strain. Make sure that the tea has cooled slightly before drinking it.
Frankly, I can't believe that the experts, whoever they are, blame peppermint for causing heartburn. |
| My top recommendations for IBD are peppermint and ginger, followed by chamomile and fennel. To make a tea from any of these herbs, simply steep 1 to 2 teaspoons of dried herb in a cup of freshly boiled water for 10 minutes. Then strain before drinking. If you wish, you can combine any or all of these herbs in proportions that suit your tastebuds.
Another herb that may be effective for IBD is asafetida. You may not have heard of this Middle Eastern garlic-scented spice before. I first encountered it in Iran many years ago. |
| It's a close botanical relative of ginger, with similar cholesterol-cutting action.
In one study, people with high cholesterol who took a daily dose of turmeric extract containing 500 milligrams of curcuminoids, the herb's active compounds, saw their cholesterol plummet by 29 percent. That's a remarkable decrease for any treatment, one that rivals the best (and most expensive) pharmaceutical cholesterol medication.
To take advantage of turmeric's cholesterol-reducing effects, use more of the herb in your cooking. By itself, it has a pleasantly warm flavor. |
| Dash of basil 1 quart water
Lemon
Stevia (a natural sweetener) what to do
In a pot, combine the cloves, turmeric, coriander, cinnamon, ginger, and basil. Add the water. Bring to a boil, then reduce the heat and simmer for 10 minutes. Strain out the plant material. Flavor with the lemon and stevia, if you wish. Drink a cup at a time as needed, refrigerating any left over for reheating later on.
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1-2 stress worsens chronic pain. So controlling the former could help ease the latter.
But that's not the only reason kava works. The herb also contains kavalactones, which help treat pain. |
Heather Boon, BScPhm, PhD and Michael Smith, BPharm, MRPharmS, ND
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 L.6
General Anti-Emetic
ž powdered rhizome: 1-2 g single dose.6
Motion Sickness
ž powdered rhizome: 2-4 g daily.1,34
Gingko
Ginkgo biloba L
THUMBNAIL SKETCH
Common Uses
ž Cerebral Insufficiency
ž Intermittent Claudication
ž Raynaud's Syndrome
ž'? Memory
Impairment/Dementia
ž Tinnitus
ž Vertigo
Active Constituents
ž Ginkolides
ž Bilobides
ž Flavone Glycosides
Adverse Effects
ž Extremely infrequent, but include: gastrointestinal disturbances and headache; very rarely spontaneous bleeding. |
Marcia Zimmerman, C.N.
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| Substitute H> cup coconut milk and I Vi cups chicken broth or miso broth for the tomatoes. Use ginger and curry powder instead of cinnamon, allspice, and nutmeg. Eliminate the topping and serve the curry over hot steamed rice. Pass cashews, raisins, and green onions to be added at the table.
All hearty soups fit nicely into the ODM menu plan, as will vegetarian casseroles that combine legumes, torn, and soy or rice cheese. If you don't use cheese, you can use the 4 fats and 1 protein it contains at another meal during the day. Here is an excellent hearty soup recipe. |
Thomas Bartram
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 A pinch of ginger enhances action. Formula. Skullcap 2; Black Cohosh 1; Cramp bark 1. Dosage. Powders: 500mg or one-third teaspoon. Liquid extracts: half-1 teaspoon. Tinctures: 1-2 teaspoons. In honey, water or fruit juice thrice daily, before meals.
In the absence of the above, the following are also reliable: Black Haw, Helonias, Squaw Vine. Jamaica Dogwood combines well with Black Haw.
Antispasmodic drops.
Supplements. B-complex, B6, Calcium, Magnesium.
Supportives: Heat to the feet. Hot water bottle and electric blanket. Bedrest helps relax pelvic tissues.
DYSPAREUNIA. |
Marcia Zimmerman, C.N.
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| OAT MILK
Ingredients
Vi cup organic rolled oats (old-fashioned kind)
2 cups of boiling water
Nutmeg, cinnamon, vanilla, or ginger to taste
Directions
1. Add the oats to the boiling water, cover, and cook on low for 2 to 3 minutes.
2. Set aside to cool.
3. When cool, mix in a blender with spice(s) of choice until the mixture is smooth and creamy. You can adjust the consistency by adding more water.
4. Chili before serving or blend in ice cubes for part of the water. |
Ruth Winter, M.S.
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 The oil is used in berry, cola, cherry, rum, root beer, cinnamon, and ginger ale flavorings for beverages, condiments, and meats. Can be a skin sensitizer in humans and cause mild sensitivity to light.
CINNAMON LEAF OIL • See Cinnamon Oil.
CINNAMON OIL • Oil of Cassia. Chinese Cinnamon. Yellowish to brown, volatile oil from the leaves and twigs of cultivated trees. About 80 to 90 percent cinnamal. It has the characteristic odor and taste of cassia cinnamon and darkens and thickens upon aging or exposure to air. Cinnamon oil is used to scent perfumes and as a flavoring in dentifrices. |
| Occurs naturally in coriander, ginger oil, oil of lime, rosemary, strawberries, thyme, citronella, and nutmeg. Toxicity is similar to camphor oil (see).
BORNYL ACETATE • A colorless liquid derived from borneol (see), it is used in perfumery and flavoring and as a solvent.
BORNYL FORMATE • Used in perfumes, soaps, and as a disinfectant. See Borneol.
BORON • Occurs in the earth's crust in the form of its compounds, never as the element. It is used in dietary supplements up to 1 mg. per day. |
| The herbs selected for aromatic bitters must have a persistent fragrant aroma. ginger and cinnamon are examples. ARROWROOT • An ingredient in dusting powders and hair dyes made from the root starch of plants. Arrowroot was used by the American Indians to heal wounds from poisoned arrows. It is used as a culture medium and as a medicine. In cosmetics, it is used to help moisturizers penetrate the skin. No known toxicity. ARSENIC COMPOUNDS • Arsenic is an element that occurs throughout the universe and is highly toxic in most forms. |
| It is a member of the Zingiber family. See ginger Oil. AMP • The abbreviation for aminomethyl propanol (see). AMP-ACRYLATES COPOLYMER • A film-former. See Acrylates. AMP ISOSTEAROYL HYDROLYZED COLLAGEN • Collagen (see) from animals used in "antiaging" products and other emollients. AMPD • The abbreviation for aminomethyl propanediol (see). AMPD ACRYLATES/DIACETONEACRYLAMIDE COPOLYMER • Acrylic Acid, Methacrylic Acid, and their simple esters. See Acrylates. AMPD ISOSTEARIC HYDROLYZED PROTEIN • The salt of isostearic hydrolyzed animal protein. See Hydrolyzed Protein. |
| COLTSFOOT • Wild ginger. Used for its soothing properties in shampoos and astringents. From an herb used historically to fight colds and asthma, it reputedly opens pores and allows sweating. It has been used as a soothing ointment. No known toxicity.
COMBRETUM MICRANTHUM • A tropical shrub rich in tannins (see). COMEDONES • Plugs of sebaceous (oil) matter that obstruct the hair follicle. They are called whiteheads if the top of the follicle remains narrow, and blackheads if the follicle is stretched wide.
COMFREY • Symphytum officinale. Knitbone. Blackwort. Healing Herb. |
Earl L. Mindell, R.Ph., Ph.D.
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 Morton Weidner, a Danish biochemist. This ginger extract acts on chemicals in the body, called eicosanoids (which are involved in the inflammatory process) and in doing so inhibits the production of the enzyme Cox-2, which causes inflammation (see "Cox-2 Inhibitors" on page 301). Levels of pro-and anti-inflammatory eicosanoids also can be affected by the types of foods we eat, and that's one way diet is connected with the risk of arthritis. |
Marcia Zimmerman, C.N.
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| Use I Vi quarts boiling water flavored with 3 tablespoons medium miso paste, 2 tablespoons fresh grated ginger root, and I teaspoon lemon zest, instead of the spices listed above, to simmer the pork.
• Turkey and Sweet Potato Soup. Substitute turkey meat for the pork, I pound of sweet potatoes for the beans and spaghetti squash, and Vi pound of green beans for the tomatoes, celery, garlic, and zucchini. Make a broth of I Vi quarts water and light miso paste. Season with salt, 114 teaspoons sage, and Va teaspoon ground pepper instead of the parsley, basil, oregano, and chili powder. |
Patrick Quillin, PhD,RD,CNS
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 Place apple juice, soy sauce and syrup in a small saucepan. Simmer gently on a low heat to reduce volume slightly. Thicken with arrowroot. Add ginger. Adjust flavor.
Spanish Tomato Salad
4 fresh tomatoes, cut into sixths
1/4 cup fresh cilantro, chopped
4 green onions, chopped
1 red bell pepper, finely chopped
3 Tbs. fresh lemon juice
1 Tbs. soy sauce
Mix ingredients together. Allow flavors to blend. |
Muhammed Majeed, Ph.D. Vladimir Badmaev, M.D., Ph.D. Uma Shivakumar, Ph.D. R. Rajendran, M.S.
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| Structure and
Composition
The anatomical characteristics of the uncured rhizome, resemble those of ginger,50 which belongs to the same family, Zingiberaceae.
(c) cortex (ct) cork tissue (cy) central cylinder (en) endoderm (ep) epiderm
(fvb) fibrovascular bundle (hy)hypoderm (ol) oleoresin cells (st) starch
01 cylinder of parenchymal cells is separated from the cortex by a thin layer of oblong cells, called the endoderm. Starch granules are scattered throughout the parenchymatal tissue, the dominant constituent, which are 15 to 30 mm in size flat or disc shaped bodies. |
Gary Null
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 Cloves and ginger also contain significant amounts of the mighty little mineral activator.
Except for organ meats like liver, animal foods supply only small amounts of manganese. Thus, you can't expect much from meat, seafoods, poultry, or dairy products. In fact, if you eat the typical modern American diet of meat, refined flour and sugar products, and processed vegetables and fruits, you are probably one of the millions of Americans who is manganese deficient.
HOW MUCH MANGANESE DO YOU NEED?
Well then, how much manganese do you need every day? |
| If you cook Chinese food, stir-frying either bean curd or sprouts with soy sauce, ginger, and garlic and serving the dish with brown rice provides an excellent complete protein and a delicious meal.
Whole soybeans can also be eaten either on their own or in casseroles and soups. You can buy them already roasted in health food shops and some supermarkets, though steaming, boiling, or pressure cooking raw beans is better if you're planning a meal around them. |
Michael Lerner
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 In cases where a breast has already been surgically removed and the surrounding lymph nodes, neck and in some cases arm have become swollen, a buckwheat plaster can be applied following a brief ginger compress.20
This section is intriguing because Kushi makes a specific claim that there is an alternative to surgery for the removal of some breast tumors. |
| Finely chopped scallions mixed and heated with an equal volume of miso and a small portion of grated ginger are helpful to soften hardening of tissues and tumor."19
Mainstream medicine would find the diet nutritionally balanced but many of the specific recommendations nonsensical.
Kushi's Recommended "Home Cares"
The following section, "Home Cares," is one of the most intriguing and important. |
Nelson Foster and Linda S. Cordell
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 Africans liberally used their native "Grains of Paradise," or melequeta peppers (Aframomum mele-queta, a ginger unrelated to either the black pepper or the chili pepper), in their spicy cooking, so they were quick to adopt the new American peppers, and capsicums were disseminated virtually throughout Africa, as far as Mozambique on the southeastern coast.
The breadth of the chili peppers' dispersion in Africa resulted in part from a Portuguese policy intended to prevent unity among slaves and thus to reduce the likelihood of rebellion. |
Ralph W. Moss, Ph.D.
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 Most prominent of these is turmeric (Curcuma longa), a spice derived from the root of a perennial tropical plant, similar to ginger. Because of its brilliant orange-yellow color and low price, it is sometimes known as the poor man's saffron. Turmeric gives color to curries, mustards, mayonnaises, pickles and sauces. Although relatively new to the West, turmeric has been used in southeast Asia for thousands of years. It is now also cultivated in many tropical countries, including Indonesia, Haiti and Jamaica. |
Thomas Bartram
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| Formula: Tormentil root 2; ginger 8; Poplar bark 2; Ipecacuanha half; Gum Myrrh quarter; Cloves; Cayenne quarter; Slippery Elm 5. (Reformed School of Medicine, W. Beach MD, USA) No dosage recorded. Suggested hourly dose: Liquid Extract: 1 teaspoon. Tinctures: 2 teaspoons. Powders: 500mg. Tinctures. Formula No I. Turkey Rhubarb 3; Hops 2; Peppermint 1. Dose: 1-2 teaspoons in water hourly, as tolerated. Tinctures. Formula No 2. Turkey Rhubarb 2; Camphor (spirits) 1; Capsicum quarter; Peppermint quarter. Dose: 1-2 teaspoons hourly, as tolerated.
Orange berries. |
Patrick Quillin, PhD,RD,CNS
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| Apples, apricots, barley, citrus fruit, cranberries, fiber, figs, fish oil, fish, ginger, green tea, spinach, seaweed and other foods are among the reasons that I heavily favor the use of a mixed highly nutritious diet as the foundation for nutrition in cancer therapy.
Food treats malnutrition. Food contains known essential nutrients that stimulate the immune system and provide valuable protection against carcinogens. Foods also contain poorly understood factors that may add measurably to the recovery of the cancer patient. |
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